Meghan Markle must learn a privacy lesson from THIS royal - ‘Relaxed and ordinary’

MEGHAN MARKLE and Prince Harry must learn from other European royal families how to cope with the public attention, and the Duchess of Sussex should take inspiration from how one particular Danish royal manages the privacy of her family, a royal expert said.

The way Meghan and Prince Harry have handled media attention has so far only increased demands from the public and the press, according to royal expert Daniela Elser. The Duchess of Sussex in particular, in her attempt to minimise the attention on herself while at Wimbledon or in New York for her baby shower, has managed to see the interest “ramping up”, the commentator said.

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However, Ms Elser believes Meghan and Harry can still win the fight over greater privacy if they take inspiration from prominent members of European monarchies.

Speaking about the Spanish, Danish and Swedish royals, she told News.com.au: “When they’re out in public, they go about their day with very little fanfare, be it cycling their kidlets to school or ambling through a market.

“Every August, the Spanish Royal Family decamp to the island of Mallorca, dutifully make the two young princesses smile for a very staged photo op and then are left to their own devices.

Mary, Crown Princess, has been praised by one royal expert for the way she handles the relationship with the media (Image: GETTY)

King Felipe of Spain with his daughters and Queen Letizia on holidays (Image: GETTY)

In a picture, the relaxed royal can be seen buying from a market stall a souvenir, while her son Prince Frederick looks on wearing a hat and sunglasses.

Ms Elser wrote: “What’s so striking about the photos of the family on vacation is how relaxed and ordinary they appear.

“In fact, to the untrained eye, they could be any other Scandinavian family soaking up precious vitamin D and forking out euros for souvenirs that will be forgotten the instant they get home.

“And therein lies the secret to the particular way that members of other European royal families answer the vexing question of how to balance public interest while maintaining a reasonable amount of privacy.”

The Royal Family's family tree (Image: EXPRESS)

On the other hand, Meghan and Harry have been clashing with the media in the past, failing to obtain the privacy they demanded.

Ms Elser said: “For months now, privacy has been the family’s watchword, from Archie’s birth in early May to his July christening.

“When Meghan popped along to Wimbledon for an afternoon of sunshine and tennis, she was ostensibly there in a private capacity.

“So too did she visit New York in February for her six-figure baby shower, you guessed it, ‘privately’.

Archie Harrison was born on May 6 (Image: GETTY)

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“It is entirely understandable that they would want to maximise their time away from the public glare, however, ironically, Harry and Meghan’s demands for distance have instead ramped up interest in them and generated a tsunami of opinion pieces, news stories and social media posts.

“By explicitly stating from the outset that they expected greater privacy, they inadvertently made themselves more of an object of global obsession and debate.

“It also had the added downside of making them seem aloof and secretive despite the duo’s warm and gregarious nature.”